I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them.
I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.
The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.
I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.
Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work.
You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.
